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The Big Break

March 19, 1953

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Dragnet - S2 - E19

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Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.

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Dragnet: Season 2 - 33 Episode s

2x1 - The Big Jump
September 11, 1952
A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.
2x2 - The Big Sorrow
September 25, 1952
Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.
2x3 - The Big Elevator
October 9, 1952
Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.
2x4 - The Big Seventeen
November 6, 1952
Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.
2x5 - The Big Trio
November 20, 1952
Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.
2x6 - The Big Imposter
December 4, 1952
A missing young boy is found and returned to his grandfather, but the case gets complicated when the grandfather suspects that the boy is not his own grandson.
2x7 - The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas
December 18, 1952
Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.
2x8 - The Big Cop
January 2, 1953
Friday has to catch a bad cop who has been dealing with the mob.
2x9 - The Big Grandma
January 8, 1953
An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.
2x10 - The Big Whiff
January 15, 1953
A woman is murdered when she is given an overdose of chloroform.
2x11 - The Big Show
January 22, 1953
A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.
2x12 - The Big Safe
January 29, 1953
Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.
2x13 - The Big Church
February 5, 1953
A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.
2x14 - The Big Hate
February 12, 1953
Gordon Miller, a young pianist, is found near an abandoned freight car holding the dead body of a woman in his arms. He claims he has killed her.
2x15 - The Big Shakedown
February 20, 1953
Friday is looking for a crooked cop.
2x16 - The Big Rose
February 26, 1953
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing woman that left her three children with her sister.
2x17 - The Big Building
March 5, 1953
A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.
2x18 - The Big Run
March 12, 1953
Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.
2x19 - The Big Break
March 19, 1953
Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.
2x20 - The Big Light
March 26, 1953
Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.
2x21 - The Big Waiter
April 2, 1953
An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.
2x22 - The Big Test
April 9, 1953
A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.
2x23 - The Big Lay-Out
April 16, 1953
A friend of Friday's asks him for help when he discovers that his son has been using drugs, and may be selling them as well.
2x24 - The Big Fire
April 23, 1953
A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.
2x25 - The Big Ray
April 30, 1953
A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.
2x26 - The Big Frank
May 7, 1953
While investigating a routine robbery with Friday, Smith suffers a critical gunshot wound. Sergeant Friday is out for vengeance.
2x27 - The Big Lease
May 14, 1953
An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.
2x28 - The Big Hands
May 21, 1953
Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.
2x29 - The Big Fourth
May 28, 1953
Several babies are stolen in the city.
2x30 - The Big Market
June 4, 1953
A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.
2x31 - The Big Friend
June 11, 1953
Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.
2x32 - The Big Barrette
June 18, 1953
Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.
2x33 - The Big Dance
June 25, 1953
Friday and Smith are looking for two thugs that seem to have disappeared from the city.

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